Our Say: For a few weeks, Annapolis is mostly about being from Annapolis

We don’t study tourism numbers closely enough to know that it’s true, but the common wisdom in Annapolis has long considered the weeks between the close of the Annapolis Boat Shows and the return of the General Assembly as prime local time.

Monday, the floating docks and giant tents were being dismantled around City Dock.

So let’s just run with this idea and look around.

The muggy heat that stretched strangely into the beginning of this month has departed. Gone are the complaints about the weather.

Temperatures have dropped into the 50s some days and even the 40s at night. Expect complaints about the weather to return soon.

Traffic seemed just a little easier on Compromise Street at the start of this workweek, even accounting for the forklifts moving traffic barriers away from the Alex Haley statue at City Dock. We were able to get a burger at Market House pretty easily, although their service has been fine even during crowded times.

The bike lane experiment on Main Street has ended, so you know this might be paradise. Parking might just be easier, though we don’t really believe it’s that bad. It’s just something to complain about besides the weather and politics.

Annapolis is a lovely place to take a walk, sit and watch the water or look at boats moored in the harbor. Wait a few minutes and some mids will jog by in a group. Grab a water taxi just for the heck of it and watch the yacht club expanding in Eastport.

It’s not that the town is empty, either. There’s plenty left to do.

Halloween on the Avenue, a street fair on Maryland Avenue, is this weekend, and the Renaissance Festival is heading into its final days for the year. Maria Hiaasen, whose husband Rob died in the Capital Gazette newsroom shooting, will read from his book Friday at the Eastport library. Iris Dement sings at the Rams Head Monday.

No matter three consecutive losses, Saturday still can pack the town for Navy home games.

John Keats called reading, “Delicious Diligent Indolence.” We like that as a description of Annapolis in October as it slips into a daydream of being a sleepy town by the water again, where the streets seem personal even on the way to work.

It’s not really the General Assembly coming back to town that ends the Annapolis interlude. The pace speeds up right after Thanksgiving: Happy, hectic holidays ahead.

So that’s five weeks of relaxed Annapolis all to ourselves. Enjoy it while you can. And whatever you do, don’t tell anybody.